Hypatia: Philosopher and Symbol

If you travel the Web in search of philosophy, you will have noticed the growing number of sites which mention her or provide information, conjecture, and links about Hypatia's life and work. If you are interested in gleaning what there is to glean online, here are some places to visit and sources to consult:

Web Sites

Hypatia, by Ginny Adair in Biographies of Women Mathematicians at Agnes Scott College.

Hypatia of Alexandria at St. Andrews University.

Hypatia of Alexandria at A Guide to Ancient Alexandria: Cosmology, Philosophy, Myth and Culture.

Hypatia of Alexandria, by Gill Thornhill at the Museum of Women in Science & Technology.

Hypatia: Silenced by Death, by Bolder Landry in Truth Seeker: The Journal of Independent Thought. Typical of the sort of Web sources which stress her martyrdom.

The Life of Hypatia from Damascius's Life of Isidore from the journal Alexandria 2 (1993). A classic source.

The Martyrdom of Hypatia, or The Death of the Classical World, by Mangasar Mugurditch Mangasarian. An overheated tribute: Oh! is there a blacker deed in human annals? When has another man or woman been so inhumanly murdered? Has politics, has commerce, has cannibalism even committed a more cruel crime? The cannibal pleads hunger to cover his cruelty - what excuse had Hypatia's murderers? Even Joan of Arc was more fortunate in her death than this daughter of Paganism! Beautiful woman! murdered by men who were not worthy to touch the hem of thy garment!

Recommended Reading

Online Bibliographies:

Hypatia of Alexandria, by Howard A. Landman. Contains list of Books dealing with Hypatia. Annotated bibliography with, where available, links to purchase.

"The Primary Sources for the Life and Work of Hypatia of Alexandria," by Michael A. B. Deakin. History of Mathematics Paper 63(August 1995). Mathematics Dept., Monash University. One of the best annotated bibliographies. An effort to "acquaint the reader with what the primary sources are and where they are to be found..."

Books:

Alic, Margaret. Hypatia's Heritage Beacon Press, 1986.

Dzielska, Maria. Hypatia of Alexandria. Harvard University Press, 1995. Available at amazon.com.
Review by Hagith S. Sivan, University of Kansas.

Heath, T.L. A History of Greek Mathematics II Oxford, 1921: 528-529.

Kingsley, Charles. Hypatia or, New Foes with an Old Face. (1853) R.F. Fenno and Co., 1905.

McAlister, Linda Lopez. ed. Hypatia's Daughters: 1500 Years of Women Philosophers. Indiana University Press, 1996.

Nietupski, Nancy. "Hypatia: Mathematician, Astronomer, and Philosopher." in Alexandria

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